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	RIS Visit 2013 The Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Bangkok came to Sarnelli House from big, bustling Bangkok in the holidays to run a Thai language camp specifically for... read more
	Long Live Songkran The pinnacle of the kids’ summer holidays has arrived and is still going on. Songkran or the Thai Buddhist New Year has fallen on the 12-16 April this year. For the first time ever many of the children ... read more
	Graduation 2013 Another year goes by and now it’s the end of the school year this month in Thailand. It’s graduation time at many of the school... read more
	Santa Clause is in the House No Christmas day would be complete without Santa Claus, and at Sarnelli House Santa made 3 separate appearances... read more
	Christmas Outreach Celebrations On 22^nd December 2012 the Christmas Party for the Outreach Program was celebrated. Over 40 adults who are living with HIV/AIDS attended and 22 children ... read more
	Christmas drawing contest ... read more
	Psychologist camp The 24th and 25 November, 2012 was a weekend away for the 55 teenagers living with HIV/AIDS at the Jan and Oscar House, Sarnelli House and Nazareth House. Thanks to ... read more
	A Bumper crop Despite the poor rainy season up here in the Northeast of Thailand the rice paddies of Jomp’s Farm have yielded a good crop of glutinous (sticky) rice for ... read more
	Halloween 2012 In the Sarnelli House time honored American/Thai tradition, Halloween was celebrated the weekend before school resumed. This year the new Mary and Joseph Hall was the venue and the kids arrived early at around 4 pm for ... read more
	Singing for the Stars On the 18^th October during the school holidays a singing contest was organized with the expert help of ... read more
	Sports Day The school holidays have started and volunteers are here doing their best to keep the children occupied and amused. There are English lessons that deteriorate into throwing missiles across the room with ... read more
	Welcome home A great welcome home party was had last month on September 23 when Fr Shea arrived home from the USA after 5 and a half months ... read more
	Weeding the Paddies Throughout the countryside everything is a verdant shade of green, rice is growing in every spare acre or rai of land. On Jomp’s Farm as the ... read more
	Mother's Day 2012 Mother's Day was celebrated as a public holiday on the 12^h August throughout Thailand this month. For the Sarnelli House children who attend Rosario School there ... read more
	Cebo Ride 2012 The Annual fund-raising CeboRide took place on July 21^st, 2012. This was the 11^thCeboRide and it was also Cebo’s 18^th birthday... read more
	Rice planting adventures It is now the rainy season in Northeast Thailand so work is on hold while the rain does its job and drenches the dry earth and fills the rice paddies ready for plowing and planting. ... read more
	Sarnelli House selected as charity of choice for Japanese singer Makoto 4 T shirts personally signed by Makoto Koshinaka of Aucifer Band were auctioned off on 16^th June at a large open air gathering at UD Town the biggest shopping mall in Udon Thani. ... read more
	Bung Fai (Rocket Festival) Monday June 4^th was Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand. This day marks the day the Lord Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and entered into nirvana on the full moon day ... read more (with pictures and videos)
	Back to School 2012 The kids from all 6 houses at Sarnelli have returned to school! Breathing a sigh of relief and handing over the allotted pocket money, tucking shirts into shorts, ... read more
	Another inspiring Koh Samui Adventure For the landlocked children living at Sarnelli House getting the opportunity to see more of their country and to visit the sea is only...read more
	Songkran 2012 (Thai New Year) The Thai New Year or Songkran was celebrated over the 3 days of April from 13-16^th. The House of Hope kids got ... read more
	Teachers from RIS The week before Songkran, starting 9th April students from Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Bangkok travelled all the way from Bangkok to run a 4 days ... read more
	Nongkhai Festival It’s March and the long summer school holidays have hit Thailand and up in Nongkhai and in the village of Don Wai in particular...read more
	Volunteer Activities in March Before the volunteers arrived in the few days after school was out at the beginning of March, the kids at Sarnelli House tried to keep up their out of school spirits by... read more
	We came 3rd in Shai Davis Soccer Tournament 2012 Our team from St Patrick's and Jan and Oscar House played in the tournament at Pattaya - Link 1 Link 2 (with VDO)
	Graduation March 2012 In March this year before the official start of the school holidays, the annual graduation ceremony at Rosario school was conducted... read more
	Bike repair weekend In January 2012 a young man from the USA arrived at Sarnelli House. He had previously visited 2 years ago with a group of teachers from the Ruamrudee International School ... read more
	Outreach work The Outreach Program makes home visits once a week. If new people with HIV/AIDS present themselves at the Friday morning clinic a consequent visit to assess ... read more
	TCT Visit The annual Thai Children’s Trust (TCT) visit to Sarnelli House this year was more exciting than usual. In February Crispian Collins, Chair of Trustees at TCT ... read more
	Fr Bird and Candle making Fr Bird, one of the three newly ordained young priests that Fr Shea is helping to train, has like his predecessor Fr May T, provided much support, guidance and love to the children already. Every weekend ... read more
	Coming and Going for 2011 read more
	Christmas so different but just beautiful Christmas day is celebrated differently in all parts of the world. We are two German girls who ... read more
	2011 Fundraiser Bob and Timmy (Thai wife) and their daughter Dr. Debbie and her friend and co-worker Dr. Heidi (Chiropractors) put off a fundraiser for Sarnelli every year in Phoenix, Arizona... read more
	Reach Out Day Christoph Leonard bought the usual Reach Out games and special lunch to the children of Sarnelli House in October. The games were eagerly anticipated and ... read more
	Christmas party for Sarnelli House Every year, Gersheim School holds a Christmas party for Sarnelli House! ... read more
	Rice Harvest While the terrible floods in Bangkok and central Thailand have inundated the countryside and the suburbs, much rice land has also been destroyed. ... read more
	Halloween 2011 Halloween was celebrated in great style at Pai Si Tong this year. The Jan and Oscar House was the venue for a great meal featuring the newly harvested sticky rice, ...read more
	At St Patrick's The routine work continues in the school holidays and the boys at St Patrick’s learn at a young age how to feed the pigs and the ducks and ... read more
	Art School The House of Hope children from the ages 2 years to 5 years had a week of art and craft classes during the holidays. They were ferried in the back of the pick up truck ... read more
	Cookie Decorating The boys from Sarnelli House got to show off their creative side when Debbie Willis baked her special recipe for cookies ... read more
	Professor Rob Professor Rob Smeets from Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands is an expert in rehabilitation medicine. ... read more
	Hairdressers at Sarnelli House In October the holidays started off very well for all the girls and the staff of the houses at Sarnelli House. A hairdresser salon in Nongkhai .... read more
	Kids Caring for Kids "Kids Caring for Kids" offer crafts for donations. The crafts are made by the orphans and poor widows of Sarnelli House. ... read more
	Thoughts from a volunteer I had the pleasure and privilege to visit Sarnelli House for a little under two weeks at the end of March 2011. I travelled with... read more
	Koh Samui For the first time in 2011 and for the second trip, 12 excited children travelled almost 1000 km down south to the island of Koh Samui to enjoy ... read more
	Staying Afloat and More Since the opening of the salt water pool in 2010, which was bequeathed to Sarnelli House by “Smitty” Creston Smith and is located behind the House of Hope, the children have... read more
	Songkran 2011 The 3 day season of Songkran and the official start of the Thai new year, started on Wednesday 13 April 2011. At Sarnelli House it started under ... read more
	Linsey Pluckrose I have just returned from my fourth amazing trip to Sarnelli House. I first visited Sarnelli with my good friend Andy, who had made the trip with Bupa 6 months before and was keen to return... read more
	School Holiday 2011 The school holidays are heading into April with the first month gone already. Despite a cold start to the holidays with rain and weather down to 12 degrees which was unseasonably cold... read more
	Visits Home The Thai New Year or Songkran falls in the school holidays and this is traditionally a very special time for families to get together. Some of the... read more
	Graduation 2011 A record number of kids from Sarnelli House graduated school this year – 20 children in total. On March 5th at ... read more
	End of School Year The countdown to the end of the school year is on. The Thai school holidays start in March and finish mid May. This time takes ... read more
	Children's Day 2011 This year for Children’s Day January 2011 at Sarnelli House, Nok Air along with Udon Plaza Co Ltd picked up 40 children from each of the houses... read more
	Hula Hoop The hula hoop craze has really taken hold in House of Hope. The little ones have been practicing for days to put on a show on Valentine’s Day ... read more
	RIS Visit 2010 In December 2010 4 dedicated teachers and 4 local Thai staff from Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Minburi, Bangkok visited Sarnelli House again... read more
	Comings and Goings at Sarnelli House 2010 ... read more
	Miss Dottie Miss Dottie’s life so far has not been easy. Dottie’s mother and father are both dead from HIV/AIDS and Dottie first came to Sarnelli House when she ... read more
	Kids Caring for Kids' Raise Christmas Funds for Sarnelli Kids The fundraising took place after the November 27/28 weekend masses at St Jules Catholic Church in Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A. The Kids Caring for Kids organization, who ... read more
	Christmas bazaar at Gersheim Comprehensive School (Germany) This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our famous and very popular Christmas bazaar. Ten years ago this day was established to ... read more
	Rice Harvesting Up in the North East of Thailand despite the rainy season arriving late and causing a significant reduction in rice planting this year ... read more
	Keeping the Teeth Clean In the school holidays this October, four volunteers bravely faced the Sarnelli House kids at 6.30 am, armed with their toothbrushes and toothpaste and ... read more
	Hiew Hiew is a 15 year old boy who was previously living with his mother and occasionally staying with a friend in Khon Kaen when he ... read more
	Holiday in Koh Samui After much dreaming and planning solidly for the last 6 months, 12 children from Sarnelli House experienced a one week trip of a lifetime in October this year. Christoph Leonard - General Manager of the Amari Palm Reef Koh Samui and long time supporter of Sarnelli House... read more
	Thai TV On the 20th and 21^st September 2010 a film crew from Channel 9 Thai TV came to Sarnelli House. They produce and run a weekly program shown on Sundays at 3pm about foreigners working in Thailand and contributing to Thai life.... read more
	Ceboride 2010 The 2010 CEBORIDE held in Wisconsin USA on July 17, was a hot and humid day for the 29 bikers who rode 100 miles in about 7.5 hours. Each of the bikers carried a ... read more
	Rice Planting With the rainy season scheduled to be dumping rain down to fill the rice paddies and replenish the dry fields, it has been a huge matter for concern that the rains have not yet arrived.... read more
	Fr Shea’s birthday celebrations It began after mass on Saturday morning on 31st July 2010 at Sarnelli House. This birthday celebration was a big one - his 6th cycle or 72 years old.... read more
	Camp June 2010 On two weekends in June, 16 teenagers all living with HIV/AIDS, from the Jan and Oscar House and Nazareth House attended a camp at Khon Kaen. The camp was run by the Infectious Diseases Team at ... read more
	First Aid Training For three days, from May 25- 27th, 2010, Thai Red Cross came to Sarnelli House to deliver First Aid Training. The reasons for supporting such a training session for the staff are numerous... read more
	Ben's death A while back, I wrote about a little guy, 13 years old but he looked about 8, named “Ben”. Ben came to us shortly after Piyanoot, and he looked like somebody in Dachau (Nazi prison camp). He was brought in by... read more
	Caring for Noot Noot came to Sarnelli House in January 2010. Her Aunt and cousin came to see Fr Shea while Noot was in hospital. Noot was 16 years old and had only taken ill in the beginning of January... read more
	Piyanoot (Noot) Every once and a while, we take in a gravely ill child that swiftly reminds us of what AIDS is really about. Earlier this year, we took in a 16 year old girl who had AIDS, TB and kidney failure. ... read more
	Samatha Hennessy says I came here in October 2009 and also April 2010. Words can’t express what a wonderful experience both times have been, the first time I was so scared of what I had put myself up for, but I needn’t have worried... read more
	Heema's sharing Heema …..aka Pi Mama! Within the first 5 minutes of my arrival at Sarnelli House I was ambushed by the lovely kids who dressed my hair with flowers. Overwhelming I thought! ... read more
	Pattaya Holiday The buses left Nongkhai after the 6pm medicines were given out. There were some very excited kids who had packed their clothes, some 2 days before leaving. Bus 1 contained the girls from Viengkhuk and the toddlers from House of Hope, Bus 2 was the Love Bus with ... read more
	The Pool The pool behind the House of Hope has finally been finished, and opening day wastoday. Thanks to the generous money left to Sarnelli House specifically to build a pool by Creston and Kanya Smith in Creston’s will ... read more
	Holiday activities for March 2010 Aquarium Visit, Triathalon, English Teaching, Art and Craft Activities and Visit from Habitat for Humanity ... read more
	"Kids Caring for Kids" Exchange Letters: Christian Kids in USA and Muslim Kids in Oman Caring for Orphan Kids in Thailand read more
	Graduation 2010 On March 6th 2010, 10 children from Sarnelli House, in a ceremony at Rosario Witthayu School, graduated from Kindergarten and High School. The 6 who graduated from kindergarten were from 3 different houses. read more
	The 10th Anniversary of Sarnelli House and the Opening of the Jan and Oscar Home February 15^th saw in Valentine’s Day at Sarnelli House, but more importantly it was the day to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of Sarnelli House and the official opening of the Jan and Oscar for teenage boys. read more
	Reflection after a visit to Sarnelli House by Tracey Sauer It is hard to put into words the profound impact that this visit to Sarnelli House has had on me. There were so many emotions - happiness to see the joy of the children... read more
	Kids Caring for Kids In 2007 Ally and Nick Carpenter of Katy Texas started sending part of their allowance to a kid named ‘Art’ at Sarnelli orphanage because he needed some help... read more
	David Jacob's sharing Before heading to Thailand to volunteer at Sarnelli House many people asked me what the experience would be like. I usually responded by saying that I had no idea what to expect. While this response was partially true... read more
	Halloween Party 2009 Halloween was celebrated at Sarnelli House on the 31st October 2009 and was a scary success. The evening started with all the kids coming over to Sarnelli House for a meal. Shows were then put on by all the houses – St Patrick’s boys did a skit ... read more
	The Outreach Program and the New Clinic The Outreach Program covers 5 provinces of the Northeast Thailand and sees approximately 100 families. It provides for the primary needs ... read more
	A Fairy Tale: Gan and Tha On Friday morning, September 18, Mrs. Gung from Sarnelli House received a strange phone call. A female voice inquired whether we had a girl named Gan living with us... read more
	Who is Sarnelli? Sarnelli was a Redemptorist priest who lived in the 18th century. The following is an account of the life of Blessed Gennaro Sarnelli... read more (video)